[Taxacom] minimal length ot genus names

[Paul van Rijckevorsel]

Clearly, there is the orchid genus Aa, but this will be the exception. Not
sure where regular genus names begin, but opening The Plant-book I am
spotting five examples of four-letter names without really trying.

Paul

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Donat Agosti" <agosti at amnh.org>
To: <taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 3:13 PM
Subject: [Taxacom] minimal length ot genus names


> We are building a tool to extract taxonomic names from texts, and would
> like to know how long the shortest genus names are. Clearly, there is no 
> A, AU? or at which length do they begin?

> Thanks for any comments

> Donat

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